This is another shining example of the hypocrisy of the homophobic right-wing. Whenever they launch boycotts of gay-friendly corporations, they're exercising their First Amendment rights. Whenever the LGBT community boycotts any particular anti-gay corporation, they're bullies and fascists.
Quote“We shall exercise our First-Amendment rights and shall not stop until the drafting NFL franchise cannot sell a single ticket, jersey or autographed football,†says Burkman. “In short, we shall be relentless.â€
Burkman LLC is now in the process of forming powerful grassroots organizations in 27 of the 50 states. He states that all of these organizations shall be vigorously deployed in the boycott. In addition, Burkman says his group is building a coalition of evangelical Christian leaders from across the nation to take part in a protest if Sam is drafted.
Although Burkman’s “American Decency Act of 2014″ has been widely discussed by both national and local news outlets, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL team owners have so far refused to weigh in. Sam himself weighed in on Twitter.
“The NFL may not fear boycotts from the populist right,†Burkman said. “The NFL like most of the rest of American business is about to learn that when you trample the Christian community and Christian values, there will be a terrible financial price to pay.â€
- See more at: http://www.prnewschannel.com/2014/05/08/team-that-drafts-michael-sam-faces-boycott-says-top-d-c-lobbying-firm-pushing-bill-that-would-ban-openly-gay-football-players/#sthash.1cD9ENvo.dpuf
So allowing gay people employment is trampling on the rights of Christians. This demonstrates the cruelty and assholery of the homophobic right-wing.
Yeah, millions of people will stop paying $100 to sit in freezing cold weather with 60,000 screaming fans to watch a bunch of overgrown kids knock the hell out of each other because one of them is g..g... OH I CAN'T UTTER THE WORD!
Yeah, good luck with that guys. :lol:
Disgusting right wing Christian bigots.
Last night the first round of the NFL draft was the largest television audience they've ever had even with Michael Sam waiting to be drafted and he will be drafted or signed as a free agent. If he goes and has a killer season the fact that he's gay will be roughly as important as which brand of toilet paper .00000000001% of women's volleyball fans use on Tuesdays.
I can't think of one legitimate way that any group could force this kind of policy on anyone. Personally I'm glad, because the more homophobic assholes we identify and shut down the better. I just feel sorry that Sam has to put up with this shit.
It's just the tip of the iceberg because even if Sam isn't drafted or signed someone else will be eventually or an already established mega star will come out and the whole house of toilet paper cards will fall.
In any case it is moot, because Sam was drafted by the Saint Louis Rams.
Quote from: stromboli on May 10, 2014, 07:10:36 PM
In any case it is moot, because Sam was drafted by the Saint Louis Rams.
So I heard, I'm happy for him. :)
Yeah, they showed him on ESPN at home, first crying in relief and then kissing his partner. Has to be a first. I was glad to see it. This is the stuff that moves us forward.
Why are these people so obsessed with gay people. They don't mind the wife beaters, child abusers, drug users, rapists, gangsters, adulterers and thieves that play in the NFL. He is guilty of the only sin that matters in these simple people's minds.
Quote from: gussy on May 10, 2014, 10:08:40 PM
Why are these people so obsessed with gay people. They don't mind the wife beaters, child abusers, drug users, rapists, gangsters, adulterers and thieves that play in the NFL. He is guilty of the only sin that matters in these simple people's minds.
He might look at another player's dinky. :eek:
Here is my shocked face.
I think this sort of bigotry serves a valuable function. It highlights absolute idiocy and further isolates such minded people from the rest of the population. When we look at the racial oppression in the latter half of the 20th century, it us almost universally outrageous to us now. As will this sort of hateful posturing. Let them rant, and then watch them commit acts of hypocrisy (by patronizing the NFL) when they realize nobody's listening. Assholes.
Quote from: gussy on May 10, 2014, 10:08:40 PM
Why are these people so obsessed with gay people. They don't mind the wife beaters, child abusers, drug users, rapists, gangsters, adulterers and thieves that play in the NFL. He is guilty of the only sin that matters in these simple people's minds.
Pretty sure they blame The Gays partially for the "breakdown in family values" that seems to be gripping the country. So the Gays are responsible for all the school shootings, Welfare moms, etc.
Quote from: Mermaid on May 11, 2014, 09:30:42 AM
Pretty sure they blame The Gays partially for the "breakdown in family values" that seems to be gripping the country. So the Gays are responsible for all the school shootings, Welfare moms, etc.
(Stromboli switches to Country Bigot Stereotype:) "Hell, it ain't them gays so much as them damn intel-eck-shul atheists and they-er godless agenda, what leadin' our children away from GAWD and into sinful damnation. Next thing you know thay all be a masturbatin' behind the church! We all goin' to HELL!"
Just now on another atheist website, and we are mostly pretty liberal socially for the most part, was a very disappointing response from a gay rights supporter, "It shouldn't be about his sexuality" And all I could think was "NO SHIT" but how am I making it about that by pointing out his "firstness" in this?
Same shit I hate when other atheists say "I don't make my atheism an issue". Right, so the way to fight bigotry is to remain silent to placate the insecurities of bigots?
I really wanted to punch this atheist in the face. You look at the video of when he got word he was drafted. If he had been straight kissing a girlfriend no one would bat an eye. But suddenly when he does the same gay supporters like me are making it an issue? How? Instead of attacking me for supporting him how about attacking the fuckwads who want him to hide what he is?
Quote from: Brian37 on May 11, 2014, 10:10:58 AM
Just now on another atheist website, and we are mostly pretty liberal socially for the most part, was a very disappointing response from a gay rights supporter, "It shouldn't be about his sexuality" And all I could think was "NO SHIT" but how am I making it about that by pointing out his "firstness" in this?
Same shit I hate when other atheists say "I don't make my atheism an issue". Right, so the way to fight bigotry is to remain silent to placate the insecurities of bigots?
I really wanted to punch this atheist in the face. You look at the video of when he got word he was drafted. If he had been straight kissing a girlfriend no one would bat an eye. But suddenly when he does the same gay supporters like me are making it an issue? How? Instead of attacking me for supporting him how about attacking the fuckwads who want him to hide what he is?
I understand the desire to make a cultural leap forward and have all of this be a non-issue. It isn't exactly realistic today, but it's certainly the goal.
As for atheists being quiet about it, I do it for reasons of self-preservation. I'd rather be silent about it than lose my job. Can you blame me for that?
And for the record, Brian, I agree with you, I think it's a very important "first" to be celebrated.
Brian, I understand the frustration and have already seen with perspective that maybe that person is not gay so he/she doesn't experience the stigma that we gays have been through. It's the same really as the scene of gay/lesbian kissing in my country that has always been cut, while straight kissing can be fully presented. It's... saddening and heartbreaking but that's the reality of heteronormative society.
But to be fair, yes, he should not be drafted just because he's gay. They should do that because he fucking deserve to be drafted, aka he's a beast in how he plays in the field. The thing that media highlights is probably even though he deserves to be drafted, he's always had a chance to not be drafted just for the fact that he is gay.
Just watched the video. Gay kiss? Ok...but INTERRACIAL!? Rabble rabble rabble rabble rabble rabble rabble rabble.
/is in an interracial gay relationship in the south.
It'll be interesting to see how this turns out for the Rams as well as the player. I read somewhere that under 10% of guys drafted that late make it in the NFL. The guys on the small side and a bit slow for NFL standards. I'd hate to see the Rams cut him cause he can't contribute and face a backlash for it. That would make it that much harder for the next gay player. Look at how the fundies went nuts when it turned out Tebow couldn't hang.
QuoteLook at how the fundies went nuts when it turned out Tebow couldn't hang.
Even stranger about that is that nearly every NFL team today is dominated by fundamentalist evangelical xtians. Now it seems that not only was Teabow run out on a rail for being a man of god, but now the evangelicals can say, "See? We accept gay people, but to bad he's just not good enough to play pro football. " A huge part of me smells a rat in this whole thing. Maybe I'm just being passive aggressive paranoid. But don't forget, Donald Sterling isn't a racist. Isn't that the important thing here?
Oh knock me over with the family feather! Ken Blackwell of the Family Research Counsel was on CNN suggesting Michael Sam is using his kiss "as a personal prophylactic to make sure he's never cut from the NFL". Leave it up to the pious to never concoct a conspiracy theory. :think:
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on May 13, 2014, 12:49:21 AM
Oh knock me over with the family feather! Ken Blackwell of the Family Research Counsel was on CNN suggesting Michael Sam is using his kiss "as a personal prophylactic to make sure he's never cut from the NFL". Leave it up to the pious to never concoct a conspiracy theory. :think:
Yes, because gay people never kiss their partners during times of great joy. That have never happened I'm the history of ever. When I get home from Iowa me and my boyfriend will just shake hands. We only kiss when straight people are watching, never as an expression of love.
Quote from: The Skeletal Atheist on May 13, 2014, 07:29:25 PM
Yes, because gay people never kiss their partners during times of great joy. That have never happened I'm the history of ever. When I get home from Iowa me and my boyfriend will just shake hands. We only kiss when straight people are watching, never as an expression of love.
Oh stop using face slobber as your personal prophylactic to keep from being banned from the site.
Quote from: The Skeletal Atheist on May 13, 2014, 07:29:25 PM
When I get home from Iowa me and my boyfriend will just shake hands. We only kiss when straight people are watching,
:kidra:
go on, and then what.....and then what?
:keel:
He signs an NFL contract of course.
Ok, so.. integrate football then baseball, now we got gays. Sam has a good year, more players will come out and then..... Yeehaw! Homophobe owners be a dancin' in skirts at gay proms just to attract new players. Progress.
Kinda funny, because one of my heroes, Vince Lombardi, had a gay brother. Lombardi was one of the people that stood firm against bgiotry in football. Loved him then, revere him now.
http://larrybrownsports.com/football/vince-lombardi-gay-players/186282
QuoteAfter being drafted by the St. Louis Rams, Michael Sam celebrated by kissing his boyfriend. This is historic because it’s the first time anyone has celebrated being drafted by the St. Louis Rams. - Conan O'brien
:eek:
I almost expected the Cincinnati Bengals to sign him to follow up on the tradition of Paul Brown, but Cincinnati is the Alabama of Ohio.
Quote from: AllPurposeAtheist on May 13, 2014, 09:18:09 PM
Oh stop using face slobber as your personal prophylactic to keep from being banned from the site.
With my clever use of homosexuality I'll never be banned!
Quote from: aitm on May 13, 2014, 09:24:31 PM
:kidra:
go on, and then what.....and then what?
:keel:
Well, first we CENSORED BY THE NSA
Quote from: The Skeletal Atheist on May 13, 2014, 09:52:39 PM
With my clever use of homosexuality I'll never be banned!
Well, first we CENSORED BY THE NSA
and there was much rejoicing as Texas burned.
I'm really surprised the fires in Texas haven't been blamed on Sam.....yet.